CBS has canceled Guiding Light after 72 years. I guess all the soaps are falling apart. The last few times I watched it they had this hand-held camera, sexy-reality-show look going on. They had some pop-country type of theme song. I liked it when they shot soaps on the stages. The old theme song used to be tuneless harp plucking. The title card was an out-of-focus picture of sunlight diffused through some tree limbs.
Guiding Light started on radio in 1937 and went to TV in 1952. I used to watch half of Guiding Light and then a M*A*S*H rerun every day in high school. The "hip" soap at the time was General Hospital but just by accident I caught the end of Guiding Light once and decided to try and keep up with it while only seeing 1/2 of it everyday. Kevin Bacon was on it back then-- I thought he was Phillip Spaulding (a big character, part of one of the main families of the story) but it turns out that wikipedia informs me that it was otherwise and not so.
